Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conduct during the strike the brotherhoods issued a precise, workmanlike set of rules, the sort of rules that come natural to men who are used to starting their run. at 1:17 a.m.. passing a water tower at 2:13 a.m., pulling on to a siding so that a fast passenger train can pass at 3:04 p.m. Men on their runs at 6 a.m. would deliver their trains to terminals before going on strike; members would stay away from railroad property, avoid all violence; roll would be called twice a day in local strike headquarters; no striker could...
...member of the Cabinet during World War I, sponsored conscription, earned the Conservatives the lasting and damaging enmity of most French Canadians. In World War II Meighen has sat in the quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana...
This autumn, amid all these, NBC has 1) elected to fight FCC's regulations (TIME, Oct. 20), 2) distinguished itself for its work in short-wave broadcasts to Europe (TIME, Nov. 3), 3) proved its responsible and impartial conduct in awarding time to both isolationists v. interventionists (TIME...
...quibble about houses. My client is at perfect liberty to conduct his work-which calls for stripping, trenching and no small amount of dynamiting-between the houses...
Their first opportunity to come out for the Crimson, Freshmen alone may compete for the news and photographic boards. The business competition will be open to both Freshmen and Sophomores, while the editorial board will limit its competition to Sophomores. At the same time the editorial board will conduct separate competitions, open to Sophomores and Juniors, for art and music critics...